Scientists find potentially habitable Earth-like planet not too far from our own solar neighborhood
The planet is being described as our "next-door neighbor."
Published: 11 hours ago | By Biplab Das
NASA's TESS telescope found a planet 40,000 light-years away and it wasn't even looking for it
"When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be capable of finding this kind of planet."
Published: 1 day ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Scientists discover a rare Neptune-sized exoplanet that leaves a mark on its host star
The planet transfer its magnetic energy into the outer atmosphere of its star.
Published: 2 days ago | By Biplab Das
Scientists witness a black hole's point of no return for the first time ever
The event horizon of a black hole should be virtually impossible to study, yet an international team of researchers figured out a way.
Published: 3 days ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Astronomers confirm long-held suspicion, find star-forming fuel in early universe
This discovery provides important insights into how the first galaxies in the early universe grew so massive.
Published: 4 days ago | By Biplab Das
ESA's Euclid took the most detailed photo ever of the Milky Way's core—and made a surprising discovery
Euclid captured more than 60 million stars, with nebulas and star clusters, and planets among them.
Published: 7 days ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Hubble sees starlight from a galaxy just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang—what did it reveal?
Tightly clustered young stars in an ancient galaxy ionized the early universe's opaque gas.
Published: 7 days ago | By Biplab Das
NASA’s TESS mission finds two rare exoplanets with density like that of cotton candy
The two exoplanets, roughly the size of Jupiter, are located 1,113 light-years away from Earth.
Published: 7 days ago | By Pranjal Nath
NASA's James Webb cuts through dust to reveal 16.5 million never-before-seen stars in Cigar Galaxy
Prior observations of M82 were unable to peer through the haze. Here's what James Webb Space Telescope found.
Published: Jun 24, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
NASA's James Webb dates back comet 3I/ATLAS to 'cosmic noon,' raises questions about our solar system
The data obtained by Webb had two things that took researchers by surprise.
Published: Jun 24, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
The Milky Way's chaotic center has an island of calm gas that can spawn new stars, a study finds
The study provides clues to how the Sun was born about 4.5 billion years ago.
Published: Jun 23, 2026 | By Biplab Das
The Milky Way’s core is emitting mysterious gamma rays. Scientists think it could be linked to dark matter.
Currently there exist two explanations behind the mysterious signals. The study strengthened one.
Published: Jun 23, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Supermassive black holes seen 'burping' years after devouring unlucky stars
Expelled stellar debris slams into gas, triggering the radio flares we see as 'burps.'
Published: Jun 22, 2026 | By Biplab Das
One of the mysterious 'little red dots' has been identified as a 'black hole star'
"I think part of the scientific community is converging on a singular picture—that little red dots can be explained by black hole star models."
Published: Jun 19, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Cosmic connections: NASA's Fermi spots first-ever evidence of a sibling supernova
Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.
Published: Jun 19, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Scientists trace 'ghost particle' event to distant galaxy trillions of times brighter than Sun
The galaxy, hidden behind thick layers of dust, is about 11 billion light-years away.
Published: Jun 19, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Nearby Sun-like star ate one of its planets in the blink of an eye. Here's how astronomers caught it
"You are what you eat, right?"
Published: Jun 18, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Four generations of stars discovered in region near the center of the Milky Way
The region, called Terzan 5, was previously thought to contain two generations of stars.
Published: Jun 18, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
Scientists stunned by fireworks in nearby galaxy: 'Something unusual is going on in these objects'
NASA's Chandra telescope caught sources previously identified as supernova remnants displaying dramatic, completely unexpected variations in brightness.
Published: Jun 16, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
Astronomers have caught the first-ever glimpse of star-forming gas in early galaxies
Detecting cold, star-forming gas was difficult, and the findings will help understand galaxy growth.
Published: Jun 16, 2026 | By Biplab Das